Dave and I met at Sun in Santa Clara on Wednesday, January 16th. It was
just the two of us. Although, I was disappointed that no other Roller
developers/users/contributors were able to attend, it was nice to have
Dave to myself for almost 2 hours.
We talked about a few subjects worth summarizing for the list.
Roller 4.1 Release Features
We added two features to the 4.1 Release Proposal
<http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Roller+4.1+Release>
* Turn Atom Publishing Protocol on by default, update documentation,
and test (http and https)
* Weblogs may optionally have a unique subdomain or a custom domain
Dave has some code for assigning unique URLs to each blog (not checked
in though, right Dave?)
Roller Release Schedule and Process
We also talked about the Roller Release Process. I noted that the
currently documented Release Plan
<http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RollerReleasePlan> (which
calls for monthly releases) is not being followed. I recommended moving
to Eclipse-like milestone releases that would be tagged (and perhaps
even branched) in Subversion, but would not go through the full testing
and release process required to make a tarball.
Since Dave has already committed the code for External Users, Tag Data
API, and OpenSearch to the trunk, I asked him to tag it in Subversion
(suggesting 4.1M1 as the tag) He seemed to think this was a good idea,
but I don't want to say that he agreed to do it :) (Dave?)
I'm waiting to test the External Users code with a system that I am
working on, and if it works reasonably well, I will be a able to justify
spending time helping with a Roller 4.1 release. I'm also looking
forward to trying out subdomain and custom domain blogs.
-- Sean
